To all God’s generalsThe works you did were several.I salute all the true soldiers of Christ.Those who sacrifice their lives.In spreading the gospel world wide.Those who were killed during religious crisis.Jesus Christ recognizes your faces. Those who died in the struggles.The Lord has wiped away all your troubles.To my Dad, Rev. Matthew T. Damakuk.You created […]

“As a country we did not need 36 states, 774 Local Government Councils or the number of ministries we have today…….. at the moment 70 per cent of Federal Government’s revenue goes for payment of salaries and entitlement of civil servants, leaving 30 per cent for development of 167 million Nigerians….. “The problem with […]

You could really cuddle the rocks and kiss them. When you climb the hills you will actually touch the clouds because you will not help but imagine how the mountains are locked in an embrace with the sky. The sweetest thing for me is the smell of its harmattan. It will give you a crown […]

The stories of the various crises and riots in Jos are those of hypocrisy and bias. The government has continually been bias/unfair to the victims of the impasse and unfortunately the media have also been complicit. The issue of Jos is simple and clear, the Hausa/Fulani have been on the offensive. There has never been […]

I will not weep for you Achebe. Why should I weep, why should we weep? If anyone needs weeping for, it should be us, this generation of hunger and anger. I can’t weep for you Achebe. You didn’t die of hunger and you never lived in hunger. You didn’t die of poverty and you never lived […]

In this present day Nigeria, it is not uncommon to hear older people –i.e., our parents and grandparents, regale about the good old days. Days when Nigeria was a lot better, when its rivers flowed with milk and honey. Now I ask, what happened to those good old days and the once so great Nigeria […]

Precisely a month ago, when we last looked at the on-going French campaign in Mali, whose diplomatic justification before the people of the “democratic” world was the eradication of “insurgents”, and various other “Al Qaeda rebels”, we asked readers, rhetorically, to look at a map of Mali and tell us what they see. We even […]

I may not know a lot about the rules of engagement of combat, but I am certain that one of the fundamental duties of soldiers is to defend their host nation. Ordinarily, soldiers should only be seen on battlefields and barracks, however in Nigeria, the security situation has compelled us to see more Khakis than […]

Looking for a job when you are above 35 or have several years of experience under your belt is a whole different ball game from the usual job search for fresh graduates or persons with a few years experience. With the statistics putting the number of currently unemployed Nigerians at 20.3 million according to Dr […]

My dad is a very funny dude, or so I think. He tells me that he doesnt know what it takes to be or see an ajebutter until he went to secondary school. My dad says he doesn’t call his father daddy, they call him baba and call his mum, mama. But our generation churns […]